Edinburgh housing chiefs are yet to receive a single approach from developers to renovate existing homes that have fallen into disrepair almost two years on from appointing a dedicated official to bring unoccupied properties back into use.
Frustrated campaigners found more than 2,000 houses and flats across the Capital have been left to decay in an uninhabitable state rather than being repurposed despite a successful pilot by a charitable trust in an abandoned Niddrie tenement.
But Edinburgh Live understands the local authority is yet to field any bid from a private developer willing to be the first to take on the challenge since the empty homes officer took up their post in January 2020.
